June 22, 20 Hank interviews Chad Meister on his Christian Research Journal article “Atheists and the Quest for Objective Morality” (0:35) Questions / Comments What about the Joel Osteen saying Mormons being “born again” on Larry King (22:52) What about spiritual...
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Arnold Murray and the Shepherd’s Chapel
A teacher who has recently become popular over television is a man named Arnold Murray of the Shepherd’s Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas. We at the Christian Research Institute do not endorse the teachings of Arnold Murray. This paper will demonstrate why we consider Mr....
Questions and Answers with Hank
September 17, 2009 Questions: Ezekiel 28 talks about Lucifer. Did God know Lucifer was going to rebel? How does this square with God’s regret on account of Adam’s fall? (3:10) God wanted to wipe out mankind, the birds, and so forth, and start over with the Flood....
Questions and Answers with Hank
August 27, 2009 Hank shares that new dangers of Word of Faith teachers in the twenty first century have arisen which are dealt with in Christianity in Crisis 21st Century (0:47) Questions: Many Mormons I know have good character. What is dangerous about them? (5:33)...
Questions and Answers with Hank
August 11, 2009 Hank comments on the USA Today article “We believe in evolution and God: Nearly half of Americans still dispute the Indisputable that humans evolved to our current form over millions of years. We’re scientist and Christians our message to the faithful...
The Trinity and Submission
Volume 31:Issue 1 Contents: Feature Articles: Is the Son Eternally Submissive to the Father? An Egalitarian-Complementarian Debate by Kevin Giles and Robert Letham Civilization and Its “Malcontent”: Sigmund Freud and the Problem of Guilt by C. Wayne Mayhall The...
Hell as Eternal Conscious Punishment
Volume 30:Issue 4 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 03 From the Editor 10 Effective Evangelism Apologetic Nonstarters: Arguments to Avoid in Defending Christianity 12 The Dark Side of Eternity: Hell as Eternal Conscious Punishment by Robert A....
The Apocalypse Code
Volume 30:Issue 2 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: Feature Articles: Apocalypse When? by Hank Hanegraaff Neither Hindu nor Muslim: Inside the Universal Brotherhood of Sikhism by Natun Bhattacharya and C. Wayne Mayhall Storytelling as Subversive...
Christian Response to Gay Rights
Volume 29:Issue 6 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: Look! The Emperor Has No Clothes by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Speaking of Homosexuality: A Christian Response to the Arguments of the Gay Rights Movement by Joe Dallas...
Undoing the Death of God
Volume 28/Issue 4 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: Discerning the Defects in Discernment Ministry by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Holocaust Apologetics: Undoing the Death of God by Barry R. Leventhal Bible Versions (Part 2)...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Bible Versions
To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: <What Are We to Teach about How to Handle Scripture? by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Bible Versions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part One) by James R. White Faith’s Psychology and the...
Near-Death Experiences: Research Update
Volume 26/Issue 2 From the Editor: Books, Books, and More Books by Elliot Miller Current State of NDE Research (Part One) by Michael Sabom The Great Divide: The Church and the Postmodernist Challenge by Don Williams Should We Keep the Sabbath? by James Borland Book...
Operation Rescue / Civil Disobedience
1995 Spring Contents: Feature Articles: Tibetan Buddhists: Exiled from Their Homeland, Extolled in the West by J. Isamu Yamamoto Close Encounters of the Celestial Kind: Evaluating Today’s Angel Craze by Ron Rhodes Psychology and the Church: The “Biblical Counseling”...
Identity
1992 Fall To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: Feature Articles: Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism: Mystical Materialism for the Masses by John Weldon Catholicism for the New Age: Matthew Fox and Creation-Centered Spirituality by Mitchell Pacwa Identity: A...
Channeling
1988 Winter/Spring Contents: Feature Articles: Channeling: Spiritistic Revelations for the New Age by Elliot Miller News Watch: Watchtower Instructs Followers to Breach Professional Confidentiality by David A. Reed Witnessing Tips: Witnessing to Mormons—Some First...
Why Mormonism Isn’t Christian (part 2)
Click Here to listen Mormons do not believe that the Bible is the infallible repository for redemptive revelation. In their view it's the Book of Mormon that is the most correct of any book on earth. Not only so, but in Christianity Jesus is the self-existent Creator...
Why Mormonism Isn’t Christian (part 1)
Click Here to listen The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was birthed back in the 1800s by an alleged vision in which two celestial personages appeared to Joseph Smith and claimed that all existing churches were wrong, that all their creeds were an...
The First Born Over All Creation
Click Here to listen I do an "Ask Hank" column in the Christian Research Journal, and in the current edition of the Journal I deal with the issue of how the eternal Son of God can at once be the firstborn over all creation and yet the eternal Creator of all...
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Mormons are not the only non-Christian cult. There are Jehovah's Witnesses who believe that Christianity died with the last of the apostles. They believe that Christianity was not resurrected until their founder, Charles Taze Russell, began organizing the Watchtower...
Is Polygamy Biblical?
Polygamy has been in the news as a result of Warren Jeffs and the child custody case that's become so prevalent in the news. As a result a lot of people are asking questions about polygamy, questions like "Is this not consistent with what the founder of the Mormons...
Benny Hinn/Kenneth Copeland/Todd Bentley
I get a lot of letters that come across my desk and some of them are letters from people who are just plain angry. Why are they angry? They don’t like what I’m saying about some of their favorite teachers. I recently got a letter from a man named William...
Do Works Contribute to or Confirm Salvation?
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 1 (2008). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help...
Time for a Second Wind
This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 5 (2006). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the...
Worldview Awareness
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide...
Selling The Soul of Christianity
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 4 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org...
Faith Behind the Fence: Religious Trends in US Prisons
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 6 (2004). According to a May 2004 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, by midyear 2003 there were more than 1.3 million persons in custody in state...
Muhammad: Prophet of God
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org With the publication of Robert Millett’s A Different Jesus,1 major...
The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008). SYNOPSIS Critics and supporters agree that the veracity of Mormonism hinges on Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), the founder and first prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ...
Book of Mormon Word Change
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008). A recent word change to the introduction of the Book of Mormon has once again brought attention to the question regarding the historical...
Mormonism Defenders Accuse September Dawn of Smear Campaign
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 1 (2008). Not since Mormon historian Juanita Brooks bravely penned her groundbreaking book The Mountain Meadows Massacre has so much attention been given...
Is the Book of Mormon Credible?
This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—which is...
2 Nephi 2 in the Book of Mormon
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in...
Is Jesus Christ the Spirit Brother of Satan?
This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 2 (2008). Chris Wallace: “What about Mitt Romney....is a Mormon a true Christian?” Joel Osteen: “Well, in my mind they are. Mitt Romney has said that he...
Was Min the True God of Joseph Smith, Jr.?
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number2 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org There are few better tests of Joseph...
Devout Mormon Mitt Romney Announces 2008 Run for President
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org After many months of hints and media speculation,...
A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org The advertisement for the book from Eerdmans includes this claim:...
LDS Apologetics and the Battle for Mormon History
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005). SYNOPSIS Apologetics, historically, has not been a high priority for the leaders of the Mormon Church, but it has become more so in recent years. Thanks especially to the...
Mary Magdalene’s Modern Makeover
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number2 (2006). Revisionist portraits of Jesus promulgated today by sources ranging from the Jesus Seminar to the New Age movement are receiving great attention;...
Did Jesus Claim to Be God?
This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). “I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever!” (Rev.1:17–18).2 When Jesus came to...
Is Colossians 2:8 a Warning against Philosophy?
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 3 (2006). I teach at a Christian university that has a strong emphasis on defending the faith. Our commitment to missions, evangelism, and...
The Essential Doctrines of The Christian Faith (Part Two): A Logical Approach
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 6 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS Part two in this series takes a logical approach to answering the question of what makes a...
Dake’s Dangerous Doctrine
Listen to this article (36:15 min)This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 5 (2004). For further information on the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org...
Bible Versions (Part Two)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). SYNOPSIS Christians who are serious about the Bible tend to gravitate toward a single version, which results in the tendency to identify versions that differ from their...
Bible Versions (Part One)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). SYNOPSIS What makes a Bible version “good” or “bad” and how can we tell the difference? The rapid increase in the number of major English Bible versions over the past two...
Does Acts 2:38 Teach Baptismal Remission?
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 2 (2004). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the...
High-Tech Apocalypse? Millennium Computer Bug Provokes Varied Responses
This article first appeared in News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 1 (1999). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at...
Loving the Trinity
This article first appeared in the Volume 21 / Number 4 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY The Trinity should be the object of our love, for the doctrine expresses the very...
The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity
I. THERE IS ONE GOD One God: explicit statements OT: Deut. 4:35, 39: 32:39; 2 Sam. 22:32; Isa. 37:20; 43:10; 44:6-8; 45:5, 14, 21-22; 46:9 NT: John 5:44; Rom. 3:30; 16:27; 1 Cor. 8:4-6; Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:6; 1 Tim. 1:17; 2:5; James 2:19; Jude 25 None like God (in His...
